Clytie

Clytie was a mythological Greek water nymph, the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, and the unrequited lover of the sun god Helios. Helios abandoned her for Leucothea, so Clytie told Leucothea's father Orchamus about the affair. Since Helios had defiled Leucothea, Orchamus had her put to death by burial in the sands. Clytie attempted to win Helios back by taking away his new love, but it only hardened Helios' heart. She sat naked and without food or water for nine days while staring at the Sun, and she eventually turned into the heliotropium flower, which perpetually stared at the Sun.